EITI Debates: Challenges and opportunities for socio-environmental transparency in Latin America and the Caribbean aims to share good practices in environmental transparency in the extractive sector, and to encourage debate on the obstacles to the generation, disclosure and use of environmental information of interest in Latin America and the Caribbean. The event will be divided into two days:

Wednesday, November 17, 2.5 hours. The first day of the event will begin with an introductory presentation and then the discussion will be divided into two panels: (1) transparency and access to environmental information, and (2) energy transition.

Thursday, November 18, 2 hours. The second day of the event will begin with an introductory presentation and then the discussion will focus on the panel: environmental rights defenders, in the framework of the Escazú Agreement.